Adverse Circumstances Quotes

The man must be a prodigy who can retain his manners and morals undepraved by such circumstances... [Slavery]

I've tasted the dirt side. I've tasted being broke. I've been in the dumps, I've lived in motels as a kid. I want a different opportunity for my children. I never want them to see those things.

The duty of the State toward the citizen is the duty of the servant to its master.... One of the duties of the State is that of caring for those of its citizens who find themselves the victims of such adverse circumstances as makes them unable to obtain even the necessities for mere existence without the aid of others.... To these unfortunate citizens aid must be extended by government--not as a matter of charity but as a matter of social duty.

Nately had a bad start. He came from a good family.

Circumstances may accumulate so strongly even against an innocent man, that directed, sharpened, and pointed, they may slay him.

Some of the evil of my tale may have been inherent in our circumstances. For years we lived anyhow with one another in the naked desert, under the indifferent heaven.

At birth, we are like cartilage - soft, flexible tissue. By the same natural process by which cartilage becomes hard bone, the soft, tender heart of an innocent child can become hardened by the circumstances into which she is born.

Everything bad that has ever happened to me has been caused by agents or lawyers.

Fate seemed to be playing a series of extraordinarily unamusing jokes.

For every talent that poverty has stimulated, it has blighted a hundred.

And I think more of a concern has been not within the campaign, the mistakes that were made, not being able to react to the circumstances that those mistakes created in a real positive and professional and helpful way for John McCain.

I had an accident." "That seemes to happen a lot." "It wasn't my fault." "It never is." "I just have bad luck." "Or you're just trouble." "You got a problem with that?" "No problem at all." "Oh my God! Are you going to help or not?

There is no attribute of God more comforting to His children than the doctrine of Divine Sovereignty. Under the most adverse circumstances, in the most severe troubles, they believe that Sovereignty hath ordained their afflictions, that Sovereignty overrules them, and that Sovereignty will sanctify them all.

So many kids and adults, too, have gotten just about one of the roughest breaks that can happen to a person. We can help these people.

Even when there are adverse circumstances, I try to do my job. And I usually do.

I grew up with pretty much nothing - in the hood, the ghetto - whatever you want to call it.

Just because it's not nice doesn't mean it's not miraculous.

They are in a dilemma, they are in trouble now. Hate them and strike them.

Painful as the task is to describe the dark side of our affairs, it sometimes becomes a matter of indispensable necessity.

It's true that I suffered a lot, especially when I was younger.

People work harder when conditions are worse.

I'd go so far as to say I was bullied into writing, but sometimes you need that.

I was born and raised in the south side of Stockton, California, to a mother still in high school and a father in a juvenile detention facility.

I knew guys in my neighborhood who should have made it somewhere but got stuck. I wasn't raised like that.

We should cultivate the optimistic temperament, and endeavour to see the good that dwells in everything. If we sit down and lament over the imperfection of our bodies and our minds, we profit nothing; it is the heroic endeavour to subdue adverse circumstances that carries our spirit upward.